This can be seen through how Jordan Baker's name refers to two 'twenties car manufacturers, and other references, such as "the Baedeker girls" of Baedeker Travel Guide Fame, or "the Chrysties," presumably of Christie's Auctioning Fame. ... Roger Lewis writes that this was "poignancy further increased by the futility of his money in achieving this end", and this echoes parts of Fitzgerald's life, as he couldn't originally marry the woman he loved because he lacked wealth, and nowadays, it would be unheard of. ... Reinforced by the ideas of...

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